If you've been keeping a keen eye on monthly
NPD data, you might have realized that
Super Mario Galaxy sales have been dipping in the U.S. And by dipping, we mean
plunging.
Before you have a stroke, or perhaps get your fighting gloves on, just look at the numbers. While
January's Galaxy sales were by no means modest (172,000 for the month), they were a huge drop from
December's (1.4 million) and
November's before that (1.12 million). The game also fell from it's comfy position at second place, ending up in the sixth spot for January.
So, what gives? Is it just a matter of holiday madness (not to mention, other games stepping up), or is there more to it than that?
Fortunately, there are analysts around to figure out this kind of thing, so that we don't have to. Jesse Divnich from
the simExchange logically reckons that the low sales for
Galaxy correlate to the low sales of Wii hardware. Because Wiis have been in such short supply, people haven't been buying them, and thus haven't been buying
Galaxy either.
Damn that hardware, always keeping Mario down. Hopefully once Nintendo stops diverting Wiis to Japan, we'll see
Galaxy rise again. Yet, by then, there will be only one thing on the minds of Wii owners -- you guessed it,
Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Although
Galaxy won't be able to compete with the new game, we hope there's enough room for both to succeed in the charts.
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